Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership."
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Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"It is important not only to have the awareness and to feel impelled to become involved, it's important that there be a forum out there to which one can relate, an organization- a movement."
Peter Drucker
Management Consultant, Author
"The only real difference between one organization and another is the performance of its people."
Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
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"Governments want efficient technicians, not human beings, because human beings become dangerous to governments – and to organized religions as well. That is why governments and religious organizations seek to control education."
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"Large organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization."
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"If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with."
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"Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency."
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"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
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"Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive."
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"Change is the norm; unless an organization sees that its task is to lead change, that organization will not survive."
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"Of all the decisions an executive makes, none is as important as the decisions about people, because they determine the performance capacity of the organization."
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"Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better."
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"Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing" cedes directly to the imagination. How can we draw "evolution" or "social organization," not to mention the more mundane "digestion" or "self-interest," without portraying more of a mental structure than a physical reality? If we wish to trace the history of ideas, iconography becomes a candid camera trained upon the scholar's mind."
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"Morale in an organization does not mean that "people get along together"; the test is performance not conformance."
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"Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community."
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"When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier, elevating and improving every dimension of your organization and your life.... In a company, high trust materially improves communication, collaboration, execution, innovation, strategy, engagement, partnering, and relationships with all stakeholders."
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"All Freemasonry should be disbanded in America because our organization has been infiltrated by the Illuminati and they have bad intention for America and the World."
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"That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting."
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"The fundamental rights of [humanity] are, first: the right of habitation; second, the right to move freely; third, the right to the soil and subsoil, and to the use of it; fourth, the right of freedom of labor and of exchange; fifth, the right to justice; sixth, the right to live within a natural national organization; and seventh, the right to education."
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"Nothing stops an organization faster than people who believe that the way you worked yesterday is the best way to work tomorrow."
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"A business leader has to keep their organization focused on the mission. That sounds easy, but it can be tremendously challenging in today's competitive and ever-changing business environment. A leader also has to motivate potential partners to join."
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"The fire that burns brightest in the Raiders organization is the will to win."
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"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth."
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